Betsy Likens - Clawhammer Banjo Tab (2009/03)
Author: Nicholas Poss
Keywords: fiddle tunes; banjo tab; tab; clawhammer; Henry Reed
Year: 2009
Collection: opensource
Description
Two clawhammer banjo tabs based on the tune Betsy Likens, as played by fiddler Henry Reed. The first version is a simple arrangement of the tune and the second version contains more advanced techniques.
Recordings of this tune by Henry Reed are available on the Library of Congress website under the Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection (recorded by Alan Jabbour). It is found under the title "Betsy Likens" as well as "Granny Put the Kettle On."
A recording based on this tab is available at:
http://www.archive.org/details/BetsyLikens-ClawhammerBanjo
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
Selected metadata
| Identifier: | BetsyLikens-ClawhammerBanjoTab |
| Mediatype: | texts |
| Licenseurl: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ |
| Identifier-access: | http://www.archive.org/details/BetsyLikens-ClawhammerBanjoTab |
| Identifier-ark: | ark:/13960/t57d37d3b |
| Ppi: | 300 |
| Filesxml: | Mon Aug 24 17:54:02 UTC 2009 |
| Ocr: | ABBYY FineReader 8.0 |
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